[ubuntu-uk] Desktop problems

[Kris Marsh]

On 9/5/07, Darren Mansell <darren.mansell at opengi.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:08 +0100, Keith Bowerman wrote:
> > I was surprised not to receive a reply from my previous posting on this
> > subject.  I accept that there is a lot of other traffic at present and
> > also my description of my problem was rather long winded.
> >
> > To precis the situation - when Ubuntu boots up and I log-in, the Ubuntu
> > banner is blank, i.e. there is no Nautilus sign and the three icons at
> > the bottom left of the banner are missing.  I receive only a plain
> > orangey/brown screen and nothing else happens.
> >
> > However, if I boot up, then before logging in, I select options at the
> > bottom left of the screen and choose Failsafe Gnome, then log-in I enter
> > my normal configuration.  Nevertheless, the next time I boot up the
> > problem remains the same.  The only thing I could think of was to save
> > the session but this has no effect.
> >
> > Has anyone any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Keith.
> >
> > --
> > Keith Bowerman,
> > Prestwood, south Staffordshire, England.
> > Using Ubuntu 7.04 on a Linux only machine.
> >
> >
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> does this happen with every user? Sounds like theres something in
> the .gnome2 dir Gnome doesnt like or can't read.
>
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Hi Keith,

I'm getting the same thing. I'm on Gutsy, and it started happening a
couple of days ago. Using "Gnome Failsafe" as a workaround works for
me, but haven't yet been able to find out why it's happening.

Kris